Patents by Inventor Min-Hyuk Choi
Min-Hyuk Choi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
-
Patent number: 11600235Abstract: Embodiments relate to coordinating operation of an under-display camera and a portion of a display panel over the camera to reduce impact of light emitted from the display panel during light sensing periods of the under-display camera. Depending on the level of light in the surrounding of an electronic device, the light emission period of the display panel and the light sensing period of the under-display camera are adjusted. The timing of the light emission period and the light sensing period are controlled so that a row of pixels in the display panel is not in the light emission period when corresponding row or rows of sensors in the under-display camera are in the light sensing period. In this way, the under-display camera may capture images without the influence of light emitted from the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Min Hyuk Choi, Zhiming Zhuang, Dong Chen
-
Patent number: 11568816Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a pixel circuit with a burn-in compensation. The pixel circuit includes a light-emitting diode (LED), a first driving transistor between a voltage source and the LED, a switching transistor coupled to a gate electrode of the first driving transistor, and a second driving transistor connected between the voltage source and the LED. The first driving transistor provides first current from the voltage source to the LED according to a gate voltage of the first driving transistor. The switching transistor is turned on after receiving an enable signal. The second driving transistor provides second current from the voltage source to the LED according to a version of the gate voltage of the first driving transistor received at a gate of the second driving transistor via the switching transistor.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2022Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Jeong-Keun Ahn, Min Hyuk Choi, Zhiming Zhuang
-
Patent number: 11568813Abstract: Embodiments relate to a pixel circuit of a display with a pixel level burn-in compensation. The pixel circuit includes a light-emitting diode (LED), a first driving transistor between a voltage source and the LED, an enable transistor coupled to a gate electrode of the first driving transistor, and a second driving transistor connected between the voltage source and the LED. The first driving transistor provides first current from the voltage source to the LED according to a gate voltage of the first driving transistor. The enable transistor turns on responsive to a voltage level at an anode of the LED increasing to a threshold voltage level. The second driving transistor provides second current from the voltage source to the LED according to a version of the gate voltage of the first driving transistor received at a gate electrode of the second driving transistor via the enable transistor.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2022Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Jeong-Keun Ahn, Zhiming Zhuang, Min Hyuk Choi
-
Publication number: 20230011187Abstract: Embodiments relate to a display device including two or more sections of pixels in a display area powered by supply voltages in power rails. The display device also includes two or more power detection circuits connected to two or more locations along the power rails to detect local voltages at the locations. Depending on an image being display during a frame, the two or more sections of pixels may cause changes in local voltages at the two or more locations. The detected local voltages are provided to two or more voltage regulators, and the two or more voltage regulators update supply voltages provided to the power rails to compensate for the changes in the local voltages.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2021Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Wenhao Qiao, Donghee Nam, Alexander Klement, Min Hyuk Choi
-
Patent number: 11513573Abstract: A system includes a display panel, a temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature of the display panel, a thermoelectric device coupled to the display panel and configured to transfer heat to or from the display panel, and a controller electrically coupled to the temperature sensor and the thermoelectric device. The controller is configured to receive the measured temperature of the display panel and, based on the measured temperature of the display panel, send a second signal to the thermoelectric device to cause the thermoelectric device to remove a first quantity of heat from the display panel or send a third signal to the thermoelectric device to cause the thermoelectric device to provide a second quantity of heat to the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Min Hyuk Choi, Zhiming Zhuang, Kyung Won Park
-
Patent number: 11487357Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system may determine a first region and a second region of an image based on gaze data of a user. The second region of the image may be displayed with lower image resolution. The system may access a first pixel value associated with the first region of the image and cause a first source driver circuit to generate a first pixel signal. The first pixel signal may be configured to control a luminance of a first number of pixels of the display. The system may access a second pixel value associated with the second region of the image and cause a second source driver circuit to generate a second pixel signal. The second pixel signal may be configured to control a second number of pixels, which is larger than the first number and may include a longer pulse duration than the first pixel signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Min Hyuk Choi, Cheonhong Kim, Youngshik Yoon
-
Patent number: 11475849Abstract: Embodiments relate to a display device with reduced scanning time by using a reference line separate from a data line to improve frame rate of the display device. A first pixel in a first row samples a reference voltage during a first period and samples a data voltage during a second period. A second pixel in a second row adjacent to the first row samples the reference voltage during a third period and samples the data voltage during a fourth period, where the third period overlaps with at least a portion of the second period. The reference voltage is provided by the reference line that is connected to a reference buffer, and the data voltage is provided by the data line connected to a source driver circuit.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Wenhao Qiao, Cheonhong Kim, Min Hyuk Choi
-
Patent number: 11468577Abstract: A device for providing 3D image registration includes: a collection unit acquiring 3D depth data of a part and an image of a registration body from a depth recognition camera and acquiring three-dimensional coordinates of a positioning tool on the registration body from a positioning device; a first registration unit performing surface registration of a pre-stored 3D medical image of patient and the 3D depth data; a second registration unit extracting camera reference three-dimensional coordinates of a landmark attached to the registration body from the image of the registration body and converting pre-stored relative position information of the landmark with reference to the three-dimensional coordinates of the positioning tool, to perform registration of camera reference three-dimensional coordinates of the landmark and the converted position information thereof; and a third registration unit performing final registration by using results of registration performed by the first registration unit and the secoType: GrantFiled: October 22, 2018Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: GMEDITEC CORP.Inventors: Won-Jin Yi, Sangjeong Lee, Min-Hyuk Choi
-
Patent number: 11462176Abstract: Embodiments relate to a display device including bonding pads on a display element where data signals for a plurality of columns of pixels are provided to a same bonding pad in a time-divisional manner. Each of the bonding pads is connected to a plurality of demultiplexer circuits for sampling data signals at the bonding pad, storing the data signals, and transferring the sample data signals to corresponding columns of pixels. Each column of pixels includes a plurality of columns of subpixels, and a period during which a demultiplexer circuit samples the bonding pad for a column of subpixels of a first color may at least partially overlap with a period during which the demultiplexer circuit transfers previously sampled data signals to a column of subpixels of a second color.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Min Hyuk Choi, Wenhao Qiao
-
Patent number: 11436987Abstract: A display device dynamically determines a duration of the illumination period for a display frame to adjust an average brightness of a display device as the framerate dynamically changes. The display device includes a backlight unit (BLU) for providing light for displaying an image, a plurality of pixels for modulating the light provided by the BLU, and a controller circuit for controlling the BLU. The controller circuit measure a duration of a previous frame and determine a duration for an illumination period of a current frame based on the measured duration of the previous frame. The control circuit then controls the BLU based on the determined duration of the illumination period for the current frame.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2021Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Cheonhong Kim, Min Hyuk Choi, Alexander Klement
-
Publication number: 20220199035Abstract: Embodiments relate to a display device including bonding pads on a display element where data signals for a plurality of columns of pixels are provided to a same bonding pad in a time-divisional manner. Each of the bonding pads is connected to a plurality of demultiplexer circuits for sampling data signals at the bonding pad, storing the data signals, and transferring the sample data signals to corresponding columns of pixels. Each column of pixels includes a plurality of columns of subpixels, and a period during which a demultiplexer circuit samples the bonding pad for a column of subpixels of a first color may at least partially overlap with a period during which the demultiplexer circuit transfers previously sampled data signals to a column of subpixels of a second color.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Min Hyuk Choi, Wenhao Qiao
-
Patent number: 11355043Abstract: Embodiments relate to a display device including pixels arranged in rows and columns, where duty cycles of the pixels are dynamically programmed according to eye tracking information. For a display frame, the display device may determine a gaze region and a non-gaze region based on the eye tracking information. A control circuit of the display device controls a first subset of pixels in the gaze region to operate with a first duty cycle and controls a second subset of pixels in the non-gaze region to operate with a second duty cycle greater than the first duty cycle. The first subset of pixels emits light with greater brightness than the second subset of pixels.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2021Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Min Hyuk Choi, Wenhao Qiao, Donghee Nam, Wonjae Choi, Zhiming Zhuang
-
Publication number: 20220157798Abstract: A display system includes (a) a display element having an organic light emitting diode-containing display active area disposed over a silicon backplane, (b) a display driver integrated circuit (DDIC) attached to the display element and electrically connected with the display active area, and (c) a thermal barrier disposed within the silicon backplane, where the thermal barrier is configured to inhibit heat flow through the silicon backplane and into the display active area.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Young Bae Kim, Donghee Nam, Min Hyuk Choi, Zhiming Zhuang
-
Publication number: 20220147124Abstract: A system includes a display panel, a temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature of the display panel, a thermoelectric device coupled to the display panel and configured to transfer heat to or from the display panel, and a controller electrically coupled to the temperature sensor and the thermoelectric device. The controller is configured to receive the measured temperature of the display panel and, based on the measured temperature of the display panel, send a second signal to the thermoelectric device to cause the thermoelectric device to remove a first quantity of heat from the display panel or send a third signal to the thermoelectric device to cause the thermoelectric device to provide a second quantity of heat to the display panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: Min Hyuk CHOI, Zhiming ZHUANG, Kyung Won PARK
-
Publication number: 20220146832Abstract: A method including determining a maximum luminance location of a display based on a field of view of an eye of a user of the display, and driving a plurality of light sources in the display based on locations of the plurality of light sources with respect to the maximum luminance location of the display. The plurality of light sources is controlled to have different luminance levels in different display zones corresponding to different zones on the retina of the eye of the user. In some examples, the display zones of the display system that have higher luminance levels can be dynamically changed based on the field of view or the gaze direction of the eye of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2021Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: Min Hyuk CHOI, Zhiming ZHUANG, Wonjae CHOI, Cheonhong KIM
-
Patent number: 11322095Abstract: Embodiments relate to a display device including an active display area with pixels arranged in rows and columns, where a focus area of the active display area is operated in a progressive scanning manner and a non-focus area of the active display area is operated in an interlaced scanning manner. The active display area is driven by a gate driver circuit that supplies gate signals the pixels. First stages of the gate driver circuit are coupled to first rows of the pixels that are in the focus area and output first gate signals in the progressive scanning manner. Second stages of the gate driver circuit are coupled to second rows of the pixels that are in the non-focus area and output second gate signals in the interlaced scanning manner.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2021Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Zhiming Zhuang, Min Hyuk Choi, Donghee Nam, Wonjae Choi
-
Publication number: 20220091418Abstract: A method of leakage-compensated global illumination comprises obtaining position data for at least one of a head or an eye of a user of a display system by an application processor, rendering image data for an image frame by the application processor based on the position data, modifying the image data to compensate for leakage associated with a global illumination by a display of the display system, and sending the image data to a display driver circuit of the display system for displaying the image frame on the display through the global illumination.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2020Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: Min Hyuk CHOI, Zhiming ZHUANG, Wonjae CHOI
-
Patent number: 11244996Abstract: A device such as a micro-OLED includes a display element having a display active area disposed over a silicon backplane and a display driver integrated circuit (DDIC) electrically coupled to the display element through at least one contact that extends through the silicon backplane. Through silicon via (TSV) technology may be used to form the contacts. A chip-on-flex architecture may be used to orient and attach the DDIC to the silicon backplane.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Min Hyuk Choi, Cheonhong Kim, Richard Han Soo Cho
-
Patent number: 11209656Abstract: A method including determining a maximum luminance location of a display based on a field of view of an eye of a user of the display, and driving a plurality of light sources in the display based on locations of the plurality of light sources with respect to the maximum luminance location of the display. The plurality of light sources is controlled to have different luminance levels in different display zones corresponding to different zones on the retina of the eye of the user. In some examples, the display zones of the display system that have higher luminance levels can be dynamically changed based on the field of view or the gaze direction of the eye of the user.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Min Hyuk Choi, Zhiming Zhuang, Wonjae Choi, Cheonhong Kim
-
Publication number: 20210362142Abstract: Provided are a catalyst composition with improved processability and chemical warfare agent degradation ability, a film composite manufactured by casting the same, and a preparation method thereof. Specifically, provided are a catalyst composition including a copolymer of a first polymer and a second polymer; and a metal-organic framework (MOF), and a film composite including the same, wherein processability and catalytic activity are improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventors: Kyung Youl BAEK, Soon Man HONG, Seung Sang HWANG, Chong Min KOO, Seon Joon KIM, Albert LEE, Jin Young SEO, Min Hyuk CHOI, Yu Ri LEE, Sejin KIM, DO XUAN HUY, Que Thi Nguyen, Sangho CHO